Health

Cocaine use is an increasingly widespread phenomenon throughout the world. The apparent and temporary benefits offered by this substance, however, often lead to conditions of dependence and abuse with very serious, sometimes irreversible,…

Bacterial meningitis, infectivologist Roberto Ieraci talks about the pitfalls of the disease that killed Valeria Fioravanti in just a few days. And stresses the importance of vaccination

BMI (Body Mass Index) is a body density indicator useful for understanding if we have an adequate weight for our height: in short, it is a parameter that relates a person's weight to his height

The saturation oximeter (or pulse oximeter) is a device used to measure the oxygenation of the blood, to find out whether the lungs are able to take in sufficient quantities from the air they breathe

Already in the early years of life it is recommended to have an eye examination. As time goes by, this becomes even more important, as diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy may occur due to old age, other diseases…

Checking glycosuria and ketonuria can be performed directly by the patient. This is a unique test, as most of the reagent cards used to perform these tests are now able to perform both tests on the same stick

Hysteroscopy is an outpatient endoscopic test that does not require analgo-anesthesia and allows us to investigate inside the uterine cavity using an instrument called a hysteroscope

Only 2.5% of new parent couples decide to donate cord blood: the figure, which is Italian, is unfortunately true in several countries around the world

Retinal vessels can help predict heart attack risk. Artificial intelligence-based screening system tested

Meteoropathy (or Seasonal Affective Disorder) manifests itself cyclically with symptoms such as mood swings, drowsiness and fatigue that appear during seasonal changes, particularly in the autumn and winter period, and then improve as…